[Verse 1]

Look at the time up on the wall

The clock is tellin' it all wrong

You got to slow down

You got to slow down

Slow it right off the wall

You got to slow down

[Verse 2]

My hat is bent

Oh, I got a bent hat

Maybe I'll slow down

And straighten it out

And then twist it all around

Then put it down

[Chorus]

And I'm bobblin' down 124th Street

And I think I'm bobblin' to a brighter day

And the radio's playing a different kind of music

And the universe is starting to shake

[Verse 3]

Look at the time, it's 12:30

I'm going to hell and I'm late for it

But I'll slow down

And talk about it

And the world goes 'round

And then comes back down

[Instrumentals]

[Chorus]

Now I'm swingin' about

My every daily business

And I'm pondering out about

How it's daily been

And it's easy to feel if you're useless

But it's strange when you tell your friends

[Verse 4]

So I reloaded my fax machine

With some fresh clean paper

So I can slow down and have

A slow time printing it out

Then the roof blew off again

And it came back down

[Bridge]

And the hurricanes and storms

Cover the landscape

And the picture frames are

Floating off the wall

And the hourglass is

Twisting a little bit sideways

And the neighborhood is all gone

[Outro]

Look at the time on the wall

'Cause it's going very very really slowly now

And it's the only thing anybody ever talks about

And the scientists are always trying to figure out

And the physicists are always letting it bounce around

And the novelists are typically writing stories about it

And the journalists are usually breaking news about it

And the pharmacists are frequently making drugs about it

And the charities are always raising money for it

And the client's name is always there

And the client's name always cares